Many have proclaimed that the database sector is now a commodity market. They say that feature-set and functionality differences between data management systems are generally insignificant to the end user. While this statement seems true on the surface, in practice nearly every enterprise-class open source solution stack still has an Oracle database behind it.

This paper will discuss solutions that aim to change this, powering either a fully open source solution stack, a turnkey ISV solution or custom application throughout the product lifecycle, from proof-of-concept to a robust, scalable production deployment.